The Bodyswap Post

[magicademymods]

The Bodyswap Post One: Nothing Wrong With Me In the blink of an eye, disaster strikes: disaster, in the form of a chaotic misassociation of minds and bodies. Everyone immediately blames Headmaster Birony. But for once, zaniness isn't her fault; a faulty spell has collapsed and sprawled across the campus like so much mayonnaise falling from an ice cream scoop, infused with powerful chaotic energies that make it so difficult to counteract. And so here you are: trapped in a body that is not yours. Something's Got To Give At the same time, the multicolored, feathered, amorphous blob monster has emerged without warning, lurching from its attenuated connections with the two innocent students who were used for its summonings into the light of day once more. As they promised, the faculty immediately springs into action, capturing the beast in an immense and convoluted magical cage, which it promptly squirts out of because it is now the size of a cantaloupe. In this form, the creature has no power beyond annoyance, and the staff are pretty distracted at the moment (Professor King, for example, is currently a frog), so catching it is low priority. Students are advised to be cautious around it, as it has a tendency to gnaw on things like homework, legs, buildings, and complicated spellwork. On the other hand, wouldn't catching it be worth some renown and recognition -- especially if you managed it in a body not your own? Push Me Again, This Is The End Perhaps shockingly, the Sundered aren't the only people affected by this mess of Modification. Students by the dozen find themselves in the wrong bodies, and that means the Magicademy is chaos. Cat familiars given human form raid the newly-reopened Great Hall, stealing every piece of food they can and knocking down every glass, book, or valuable item left on a horizontal surface above ground height. Unscrupulous souls take advantage of the anonymity in new forms to steal, bully, swipe, or even just catch a glimpse of attractive students of their desired gender at inopportune moments. Others are taking respect of their new bodies so far that they, well, kind of smell thanks to their unwillingness to bathe. Though classes continue as normal, attendance is a nightmare. In short, chaos rules the Magicademy, and spills over uncomfortably often into those doing their best to muddle through... LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR! LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR! LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR! This is the wildcard option. We just wanted to put that in a heading. Bodies? Bodyswap? Get it? Eh? Eh? Never mind...

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[hotheadwarmheart]

"I could ask you the same thing," Lea said. "I hope you don't mind if I pull it back, because I'm definitely going to."

"As for my hair, it's just always grown that way," he said. "Never could get it to lay flat, and believe me, my mom tried a bunch of different things trying back when I was a kid. Eventually we were forced to just accept it."

[afterthemoon]

"Do what you have to, just... get my hair out of my face first."

Isa sighs, "In my opinion, I think you're overdue for a haircut."

[hotheadwarmheart]

"I'll make you a deal," Lea said, searching around on Isa's bedside table til he found a hair tie. "You don't get my hair cut and I won't get yours cut. It's possible we both could use a trim, but let's wait until whatever this is has worn off." Lea carefully gathered Isa's long hair- including much of the bits he usually let hang in front and pulled then back into a long pony tail behind him.

"That'll have to do for now," he said. "Will probably do it a bit more neatly before I go out anywhere though."

[afterthemoon]

He scoffs, "Deal..."

...

"Go out and do... what, exactly?" Lea might have been Isa's best friend, but Isa wasn't exactly keen on the idea of Lea having free reign to do whatever he wanted with his body.

He had an image to maintain, after all.

[hotheadwarmheart]

"You know, go to classes and stuff?", Lea said, as if that should be obvious. "I mean, given this place, I don't think they're gonna give us a free pass because of this. And I'm in the middle of a project in Forging that I wanna get some work done on."

He stood up a bit gingerly and stretched. "Anyway, back in a second," he said. "Gotta... well you know." He grinned a bit awkwardly, then ducked out of the room for a moment; fortunately he'd visited the Eather dorms enough times that he didn't need to ask where the bathrooms were.

[afterthemoon]

"Well, I was hoping we could lay low until everything gets straightened out." His frown deepened into an actual frown and not just what passed for his neutral expression.

Isa can't help but start turning a color that matches Lea's hair, "Ju-just be quick about it, alright?"

[hotheadwarmheart]

Fortunately Lea was quick, finding it every bit as awkward as Isa did and blushing a bit himself on his return. The only thing that made it slightly better- or worse, depending on how he thought about it- was that Isa had certainly had to do the same thing earlier in his body.

"Anyay," Lea said, quickly changing the subject to something only marginally awkward, "we can't just 'lay low' since we don't know how long this is going to last. If nothing else, we'd have to go down to the cafeteria for meals, after all."